University of Malaya - April 2012

Technology Boot Camp

March 23-24, 2012

What would you like to learn today?

Review

• What is Google Docs?
• Google Docs for Educators Explained
• Blogger.com(what's your blog URL?)
  • The School Administrator's Guide to Blogging
  • Administrators on YouTube
  • YouTube Quick CaptureYouTube Quick Capture Help
  • Questions about Google Docs, Technorati, bit.ly, Skype, Flickr, or Animoto?
  • Promote your Blog
  • Blog: Importing and exporting blogs to another blogsite
• Google Reader
  • Google Reader in Plain English
  • Google Reader tips
  • Organizing your feeds
  • New feature - Subscribe to individual pages
  • Sharing your feeds
  • Moving Forward - Blogs and Subject-Specific Blogs
  • CASTLE's list of great blogs for busy administrators

Animoto

• Animoto Video Tutorial
• Animoto Help & FAQ
• Animoto for Education
• Animoto Scott McLeod 1
• Animoto Scott McLeod 2
• Animoto for Educators

Microblogging

• Twitter in Plain English
• Twitter
• Using Twitter as a listening station
• @mcleod Twitter lists
• Making your own list

Web Shortner

Bitly
http://goo.gl/

Google Sites

• Google Sites
• Google Sites help

Screen capture

Jing

• Jing Help
• Jing Account Help

Screenr

Collaborative Notes

• Titan Pad
• Sample Titan Pad 1
• Sample Titan Pad 2
• Sample Titan Pad 3
• Sample Titan Pad 4
• Practice Page

Online Brainstorming

• Mind42
• Wallwisher
• Graphic organizers and online spaces websites

Monitoring

• Google Alerts
• Manage your alerts
• Advanced Google Search
• Advanced News Search
• Help: Basic Google Search
• Help: More Google Search

Scheduling

• Google Calendar
  • Help
  • Sharing
  • Embedding to a webpage
  • Event publisher
  • iCal
• TimeBridge
• Doodle

Wikis

• Video - Wikis in Plain English
• Wikipedia Asphalt
• Wikified Schools
• Wikispaces Sandboxes (must create a Wikispace account):
  • Sandbox 1: http://sandbox1bootcamp.wikispaces.com/
  • Sandbox 2: http://sandbox2bootcamp.wikispaces.com/
  • Sandbox 3: http://sandbox3bootcamp.wikispaces.com/
• Wikispaces
• Wikispaces Video Tutorial
• Wikispaces Help
  • Setting Permissions
  • Name & Copyright
  • Discussion pages in Wiki
• Mrs. H's wiki, example 1, example 2, example 3, example 4, example 5, example 6, example 7, example 8, English wiki
  
  
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Social bookmarking

• Video - Social Bookmarking in Plain English
• Diigo
• Delicious
• Delicious Video Tutorial
• Delicious Help
• Bookmarklet
• Install Firefox addon
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iPads

• 58 Great iPad apps for Education

Miscellaneous technology tools

• Readability
• InstaPaper
• Read It Later
• SlideShare
• Zamzar
• Google Moderator
• Mozy
• Wordle
• Visual Thesaurus
• LastPass
• Symbaloo
• Wallwisher
• Skrbl
• Tagxedo
• Wolfram Alpha
• Little Bird Tales

Even more tools

• Edmodo
  • Three Edmodo resources
• Dropbox
• Evernote
• iGoogle
• Prezi
• Glogster

Contact

• John
  • email - john.nash@uky.edu
  • twitter - jnash
• Jayson
  • email - jayson.richardson@uky.edu
  • twitter - jaysonr
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